thank you for creating xampp project, i am using it for a long time (ver 1.6.3a); i would like a feature request pretty pretty pls: can you drop the need for VC++ redistributable packagenot to brag or any.. but M$ tend to get bloated in high and useless demands.. besides i just like unzip and runand no additional nag

@Nobbie - i am using linux in fact ub10.10 (dont like unity) i run vbox xpsp3 for portable xampp .. i got used to knowing install paths.. and all in win environment.. im loking for the same thing in linux but xampp linux needs to be installed (root stuff and all).. and i doubt it would have so clean paths.. i mean it will be all over the place.. maybe xampp linux portable.. wishing well.. wishing tell ps: i'we thought at straight install lamp using aptitude.. but i tend to use portable..all in 1 place apps

@Altrea - maybe compile using mingw? any other tool not requiring dependencies and free(i know vc++ redistributable is free.. but still..) ..its a free open source project after all.. why the need for dependencies?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/platform/win_compiling.html wrote:Only the Microsoft compiler tool chain is actively supported by the active httpd contributors. Although the project regularly accepts patches to ensure MinGW and other alternative builds work and improve upon them, they are not actively maintained and are often broken in the course of normal development.

https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows/stepbystepbuild wrote:PHP officially supports building with Microsoft's Visual C++ compilers. MinGW and other compilers are NOT supported or even known to work. For more information and how to get the compiler see the supported versions. The following VC versions are supported:

Visual C++ 6.0 for PHP 5.2

Visual C++ 9.0 (Visual Studio 2008) for PHP 5.3 and 5.4. You can use the Express versions as well.

Visual C++ 11.0 (Visual Studio 2012) for PHP 5.5+. You can use the Express versions as well.

Situation for extensions, modules and addons especially from third party is even more bad.

We don't provide any support via personal channels like PM, email, Skype, TeamViewer!

yeap.. dependencies all over; too bad, too sad;seems M$ is grabbing win branch of apache/php maybe a hostile takeover later :dshould they drop IIS for a better servicewhell.. il go lindows till i get more confident with linux; hopping for a portable linux xampp though

dan_01 wrote:and i doubt it would have so clean paths.. i mean it will be all over the place..

A simple test would have shown you, that you "doubt" wrong. Xampp comes extremely clean in one path and no dependencies - simply /opt/lampp.It is NOT installed, it is simply "unpacked". Meanwhile (as Bitname overtook Xampp) it is coming with an installer, but previously there was only one gzipped tar. Nothing else, and everything is in /opt/lampp.